ICPSRMetadata record for National Corrections Reporting Program, 1996ICPSR
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 1996United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice StatisticsInter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR2010-04-232448doi://10.3886/ICPSR02448.v1

The purpose of this study was to gather data on prisoners
entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state and federal
authorities. Data refer to prisoners who were admitted to prison,
released from prison, or released from parole in 1996. Variables
include incarceration history, current offenses, and total time
served. Background information on individuals includes year of birth,
sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, and educational attainment.

UniverseScheme02448National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) SeriesFor more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00038.Organization02448_1ICPSR.XVII.ENACJD.IIIcorrectional facilitiescorrectional facilities (juveniles)correctional systemdemographic characteristicsfederal correctional facilitiesjail inmatesjuvenile offendersnational crime statistics (USA)offendersoffensesparoleprison inmatesprobationstate correctional facilities
United States
19961996event/transaction dataAll people admitted to prison, released from prison, or
discharged from parole in 1996 in the United States.All persons incarcerated in state prisons in 38 states,
the Federal Prison System, and the California Youth Authority.
official prison records of prisoner population
movement
1996-01-011996-12-31

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure.
ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software
formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR
performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Created online analysis version with question text.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

ICPSR

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AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no
responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social RearchICPSRAnn ArborMIhttp://www.icpsr.umich.edu/help@icpsr.umich.eduUnited States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics2010-04-23ICPSR2010-04-23 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format.2006-03-30ICPSR2006-03-30 File SP2448.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.2006-03-30ICPSR2006-03-30 File SA2448.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.2006-03-30ICPSR2006-03-30 File CB2448.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.2005-11-04ICPSR2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.StudyUnit02448

Conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.